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Good morning! Happy Monday! I hope the weather was as beautiful for you as it was here… low humidity, bearable temperatures… gorgeous. I think things are going to go back to more normal July temps this week though. 🙁

I told you last week that I’m fairly obsessed with the new Southern Summer Florals 1 and 2 from the new Wplus 9 release, so much so that I sat down and cranked out two cards in about 1.5 hours (totally doable since hubs had taken the kiddos over to his grandpa’s to ride the tractor! Score!) I loved the first card, which you can see here, created with my limited colors of Oxide inks on colored card stock. Can’t wait to experiment more when the new Oxides come. But this card uses regular dye inks and I love it just as much.

After stamping all of my blooms, I die cut a circle from some A2 sized masking paper using my Double Stitched Circle dies from The Ton. I placed my masking paper on my white card front, then blended Frosty Pink, Coral Berry, and Ruby Red ink from Altenew in an ombre over the masking paper. (A nice little surprise when I pulled up the masking paper: the stitched outer circle was cut so cleanly that the ink blending came through on it, creating a blended stitched border! Not what I was intended, but still a fun development!) I arranged my blooms in a pretty swag, then adhered them using both liquid adhesive and dimensional adhesive.

For the greeting, I die cut Simon Says Stamp’s “miss you” from some plain black card stock, (isn’t that font just stunning?) adhered it, and covered it with (a new to me product) Nuvo Crystal Glaze. I also added some to the black center of the large focal flower to add extra dimension. The final step was to add a few dots of Oyster Grey Nuvo Drops here and there around my floral swag.

Well, that’s all for me today! I am loving these new stamps from Wplus9, and I hope you aren’t sick of seeing them, because I might have another card up my sleeve! 😉 Have a fantastic Monday, friends!

Good morning! Today, I’m getting back to my roots. Most of my posts center around an image that has been colored in some way. I found Zig markers about 2.5 years ago, then found Prismacolors, and I haven’t looked back since. But when I saw the new Southern Florals 1 and 2 from Wplus9’s most recent release, I knew that I absolutely had to have them, even though there was, gasp, no coloring involved. I have always adored Rifle Paper Company’s designs, and those beautiful stamps that Dawn designed just scream RPC!! I received the stamps last week, and almost immediately sat down and cranked out two different cards with them. This first project used the stamps from Southern Florals 1 with my Distress Oxide inks (I only have a few right now, because I wasn’t sure if I would truly *need* them all…. oh my, I most certainly do! The newest set is totally on their way to me after creating this project.)

I wanted to create my own custom pattern, but I wanted to make it on a colored backdrop, like in those pretty Rifle Paper Co wrapping papers. Now, there are ways of doing this that don’t require Oxide inks… stamping the image in white pigment ink first, then stamping the colored dye ink over the top, stamping everything on white card stock, then masking all of the images and blending color into the background, etc. But one of the qualities that drew me to the Oxide line was the ability to stamp on dark card stock, and so I thought this stamp set would be perfect to try this technique out on some colored cardstock!

Because I only have a select few of the Oxide line (and I hadn’t received the new set when I created this card), I had to do a little improvisation with the layering. Whenever I create a custom background pattern, I always start with the largest image first: in this case, the heart shaped pink flower from Wplus9’s Southern Florals 1. I stamped it in Worn Lipstick Oxide, then stamped the detail portion using white pigment ink from PTI. I added the foliage in Cracked Pistachio Oxide, the purple flower in Wilted Violet with leaves of Broken China, tiny little flowers in white pigment ink, and the little stamens in Spiced Marmalade. I was so thrilled with how vibrant the colors remained on my aqua card stock. A game changer for me, for sure!!

I used the Sentiment Splits dies and stamps from Papertrey Ink to create the nice little curved section on my card front. I stamped the greeting in Hero Arts’s Raspberry Jam ink, then popped the stamped panel up with dimensional adhesive.

The final touch was to add a cute little twine bow towards the top to add a bit more texture to the finished card.

That’s it! So simple, but the effect those Oxide inks have with that colored card stock…. gah. I’m in love. Excuse me while I go dig out all of my non-coloring stamp sets. Hope you are having a fantastic day, friends! I will be back tomorrow morning for the Honey Bee Stamps blog hop for their new release, which is totally mer-mazing!

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